Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Turkmenistan and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Ohio Players to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Ice-T. All the underground hits.
All Ohio Players tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every JFA record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lee Hazlewood,
LL Cool J,
Altered Images,
Vainqueur,
Lower 48,
The Slackers,
Subhumans,
Black Sheep,
X-102,
The Count Five,
The Black Dice,
Kevin Saunderson,
Gastr Del Sol,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
10cc,
World's Most,
Althea and Donna,
Sight & Sound,
The Young Rascals,
Sister Nancy,
Infiniti,
Inner City,
Scan 7,
Gong,
The Happenings,
Average White Band,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Fuzztones,
Yusef Lateef,
Amon Düül,
K-Klass,
Gil Scott Heron,
Banda Bassotti,
Main Source,
Talk Talk,
The Blackbyrds,
Robert Wyatt,
Jimmy McGriff,
Adolescents,
The Gun Club,
Eddi Front,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
ABC,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Mandrill,
Audionom,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Zapp,
Royal Trux,
Rufus Thomas,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Moleskins,
Joensuu 1685,
Marcia Griffiths,
Janne Schatter,
Aaron Thompson,
June Days,
Soft Cell,
The Detroit Cobras,
Animal Collective,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Interpol, Interpol, Interpol, Interpol.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.